The increasing population of elders in the near future, and their expectations for a independent, safe and in-place living require new practical systems and technologies to fulfil their demands in sustainable ways. This paper presents our own reflection on the great relevance of FQAS’ main topics for recent developments on the context of Home Assistance. We show how those developments employ se...

Land change science has demonstrated that rural livelihoods around the world both drive and reflect changing environmental regimes and political economic/ structural transformations. This article explores the relationship between increasingly globalized rural livelihoods and in-place land change, assessing results from social surveys of smallholding households in the southern Yucatán region. We...

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Given a rectangular m × n matrix stored as a two-dimensional array, we want to transpose it in place andmeasure the cost by the number of memory writes and the number of auxiliary cells used. We propose a transposition algorithm with optimal complexity O(mn) using only min(m, n) auxiliary memory cells. © 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.